Preregistration

Tuomas Eerola

7/2/23

1 – Current State in our Field

Specialist Journals

Keyword search of of titles and abstracts + manual verification in 3674 articles: 0

Scopus search of journal articles:

pre-regist|preregist|registered in ABSTRACT + music as KEYWORD

Total: 1 (verified)

Is classical music sweeter than jazz? Crossmodal influences of background music and taste/flavour on healthy and indulgent food preferences (Motoki, Takahashi, Velasco, & Spence, 2022)

Current State – OSF Registrations

tags: music (only in OSF Registries): 75 Registrations

Year Count Results Withdrawn
2017 1 0 0
2018 3 0 0
2019 3 0 1
2020 10 0 0
2021 24 2 0
2022 34 1 0

Top authors: C. Trevor (3), P. Savage (2), I. Lahdelma (2)

Preregistration Experiences (1)

Registered Reports (Stage 1 Approval)

Example: Register and Consonance

2 – Preregistration Experiences

Positives

  • Improves quality (definitions, design, measures, analysis)
  • Positive review experience
    • less at stake without data
    • collaborative mode

Negatives

  • Takes time (additional planning + review)
  • Reveals study plans to others (but safely so)
  • Innovation is considered more valuable that reliability boost

3 – Discussion

  • When is preregistration a valuable exercise?

  • Dangers?

    • Create more work just for the sake of the exercise?

    • If it turns into merit criteria/tenure track/promotion?

    • Limit creativity and ability to do exploratory research?

References

Workshop

Armitage, J., & Eerola, T. (2022). Cross-modal transfer of valence or arousal from music to word targets in affective priming? Auditory Perception & Cognition, 5(3-4), 192–210. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2022.2087451
Eerola, T., & Lahdelma, I. (2022). Register impacts perceptual consonance through roughness and sharpness. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 29, 800–808. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-02033-5
Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2022). Registered report - valenced priming with acquired affective concepts in music: Automatic reactions to common tonal chords. Music Perception.
Motoki, K., Takahashi, N., Velasco, C., & Spence, C. (2022). Is classical music sweeter than jazz? Crossmodal influences of background music and taste/flavour on healthy and indulgent food preferences. Food Quality and Preference, 96, 104380. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104380